This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The U.S. Air Force had spent more than two decades training her husband. During those years, their family built a life around his service, moving with each assignment change, finding new communities, and helping their children start over.When their tran
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The annual National Trans Visibility March took place in Puerto Rico on Saturday. The march ended at the Puerto Rican Capitol in San Juan, the U.S. commonwealth’s capital and largest city. Samy Nemir Olivares, a member of the Puerto Rico LGBTQ+ Federation’s board of directors who...
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Nebraska's Supreme Court unanimously ruled on October 16 that the state's anti-transgender sports measure can remain on its November midterm ballot. Cara Ullman, a registered Democrat, filed the lawsuit with the state Supreme Court on Monday, August 31. She alleged that the measu...
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Transgender voters are praising Democratic US House candidate Christina Bohannan of Iowa for responding to her Republican opponent's recent anti-transgender attacks by releasing an ad that doesn't agree to right-wing framing on trans issues. Some Democrats have responded to simil...
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Shawn Oliver, a transphobic 42-year-old Republican now-former candidate for lieutenant governor in Massachusetts, suspended his campaign on Sunday after being arrested on Saturday night for crashing and overturning his car while under the suspected influence of alcohol. Around 11...
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Trans people know that our unique health concerns are understudied. Just look at how many of us resort to Reddit forums as a source of anecdotal medical knowledge. Now, researchers are sounding the alarm on just how dangerous this lack of research can be for our heart health. A n...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that an initiative to bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports will remain on the state’s ballot.A voter sued to block the measure, arguing that its summary failed to adequately exp...
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Tammy Sue Bakker, the daughter of famed televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, has apologized to those who have been “hurt” by her family’s ministry and is urging people to donate to their local LGBTQ+ communities. In an October 8 statement posted on social media, Tammy Sue ex...
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James K. Harrison, Jr. passed away on Sept. 20, 2026, at the Hebrew Home of Greater Washington in Rockville, MD, where he had lived for the past three years. He was born May 8, 1948, in Norfolk, VA, the eldest child of James Knox Harrison, Sr. and Willie Mae Drake Harrison. He gr...
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President Donald Trump said, "I’m allowed to destroy the country," during a bizarre press event he held last Friday to speak about the Supreme Court's ruling against his international tariffs. "I’m even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo. I can embargo. I can ...
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Donald Trump's lesbian niece, Mary Trump, explained her uncle's subconscious compulsions to project his own weaknesses onto others. Mary Trump, who is a psychologist, explained in a Friday blog post that projection is "a very basic and quite common defense mechanism in which a pe...
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A bizarre rant from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) included slamming "transgender witches" as out of touch with "regular, ordinary Americans." Cruz has recently been campaigning across Alaska for incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in his race against Mary Peltola (D). His rant came during ...
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The superintendent of Virginia’s third-largest school district has issued a blistering response to the state delegate who called the district's recognition of LGBTQ+ History Month “despicable” and “disgusting.” In an October 12 letter to Virginia state Del. Tim Griffin (R), Loudo...
